UK - Iranian Father Sobs In British Court Explaining “Virginity Test” For Daughter

At the second day of the by now infamous ‘virginity test’ trial, Mr Ali Safaraei, the Iranian father accused of marching his daughter to a UK doctor asking her to perform a virginity test (see our related coverage) because she had a secret boyfriend, sobbed in the Crown Court as he claimed he only wanted to check if the boy had raped her.

According to Mr. Safaraei, his only intention in life was to keep his daughter Sophia Safaraei (18) “away from any danger and bad friends and social media.”

It was also revealed that he and his wife Mitra Eidiani went to the workplace of her boyfriend, 18-year-old Mr. Bailey Marshall-Telfer and threatened to have him killed.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">An Iranian couple have gone on trial charged with subjecting their daughter to coercive or controlling behaviour in what is thought to be the first case of its kind. Mitra Eidiani and husband Ali Safaraei demanded their daughter, Sophia, had a virginity test after discovering she</p>&mdash; CrimeLine (@CrimeLineLaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/CrimeLineLaw/status/1042315337243480064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2018</a></blockquote>

The jury of the Crown Court was also informed through Dr. Lucas’s statement (the doctor who refused to carry out the demanded ‘virginity test) that Mr. Safaraei threatened to report a 'theft' to police after she refused to carry out the test.

Sophia Safaraei's parents then headed to the London shop where young Mr. Bailey Marshall-Telfer worked and said they were Muslim, adding: “You have seen what our people do on the news.”

Giving testimony via video-link, the young boyfriend, Mr. Marshall-Telfer explained how his girlfriend’s parents indeed came into the shop of Sports Direct where they worked together.

He said they told him never to go near her daughter again, adding: “She went on to say that she is a Muslim and her husband is a Muslim and 'you have seen what our people do on the news and stuff, we're dangerous people, be careful.”

Mr. Marshall-Telfer said he was told Sophia's father was “going to kill me” and that there “would be a shadow around me.”